Chapter 9:

While Xiao Ren was meditating, Xiao Xing er look at him meditating before Xiao Xing er sat to also meditate because the fight on the stage is boring for her. After a while the fight on the arena ended before the Third Elder called another participants to arena to fight, after that the test continued while some participants who participate is 4th layer body tempering realm while there were shockingly 3 5th body tempering realm consisting of 2 young man and young lady, and surprisingly one of the young man is someone Xiao Ren know because he is his good "cousin" Xiao Ning.

After the battle ended the Third Elder called another 2 number "number 48 and Number 32, come to arena" after Xiao Ren and Xiao Xing er heard the number that was called the two opened their eyes and Xiao Ren said with a smile "Good luck Xiao Xi" while Xiao Xing er also said "you can do this, Xiao Xi fight don't let men defeat you"

Xiao Xi nodded and said "okay I will do my best" before going to the arena. when Xiao Xi get to arena his opponent also arrived, Xiao Xi's opponent is a young man around 15 years old, he has an ordinary look and his body is getting on the side of the fat. The fat young man cupped his hand and said "I'm Li Xian let's have a good fight"

Not all the participants is surnamed Xiao, There are also those Xiao Clan members with different surname like when there family is not really from a Xiao Clan but joined the clan or those woman Xiao Clan descent who marry a man and their children takes the surname of the man, and Li Xian is from the latter.

"I'm Xiao Xi please go easy on me" Xiao Xi also cupped her hands before saying to Li Xian. After the two introduced the Third Elder said "Start!" when the two heard the Third Elder they rushed to their opponent Li Xian punch while Xiao Xi let out a palm attack. The two clash and many people are surprised not because they saw that the two is on par but because a 13 years old little girl is at 4th layer of body tempering realm already.

As Xiao Xing er watched she was also shock because of the strength of Xiao Xi "she is at 4th layer body tempering looks like she really work hard" Xiao Xing er said before turning to Xiao Ren who was watching the fight and see that he was not surprised by Xiao Xi's current strength.

In the high platform the Clan Leader Xiao Lei was also surprised at his granddaughter before turning to look at Xiao Feng "Feng-er you didn't tell me that your 13 year old daughter is already at 4th layer huh hahahah" Xiao Lei laugh proudly because he know that Xiao Clan get another genius of the clan, when Xiao Feng heard his father's word he said and laugh awkwardly "hahaha, well father even I also didn't know that little lass breakthrough to 4th layer already haha"

In this Cultivation world people can only start cultivating when they turn at 10 years old that's why many were shock a 13 years old is already at the 4th layer even if there are elixir use by them because after using many elixir, the body will get an immune to that type of elixir unless they use other type but in this second rate city they only have 1 type of elixir that can help body tempering cultivator.

After a while of fighting Li Xian and Xiao Xi finally use a martial technique both at the high grade yellow rank technique but because Xiao Xi only train her martial Technique for 2 weeks and even though she can execute the move she can't smoothly use it as she wish that's why as the fight goes long she was slowly getting at disadvantage and lose. But even though Xiao Xi lose she was still welcome with a cheer when she came down the arena because the people there feel that if her opponent is the same age as her or if she has an initial mastery on her Martial Technique she would have a chance of winning.

After Xiao Xi's battle the test continue with another 3 battle happening before Xiao Ren's number was called. After Xiao Ren get to arena his opponent also arrived and when Xiao Ren saw who his opponent are he was surprised before grinning because his opponent is one of the lackey of Xiao Ning and it is also the one who joined to beat up Xiao Ren when he find a medicinal plant in the mountain but got steal by Xiao Ning.

After Xiao Ren and Xiao Ning's lackey named Xiao Tu greet each other the Third Elder start the fight. "hehehe I didn't think that I will fight you, I will beat you for the young master to see you crawling again hehehe" when Xiao Ren heard his words Xiao Ren's face frown a little before regaining a calm look and said with a clear voice "just come and fight what's the point of talking"

"hmmp, then I will beat you up" Xiao Tu said before heading to Xiao Ren and Punch but when Xiao Ren was about to hit by the punch he just step to the left and lunch a punch to the stomach of Xiao Tu.

After Xiao Tu was hit in the stomach he hold his stomach and kneeled because of the pain while coughing saliva. Xiao Ren stare to Xiao Tu before asking "do you give up?" when Xiao Tu hear the voice of Xiao Ren he immediately said "I sur...render" After winning Xiao Ren just came down the arena with calm face like what he do was nothing.

When Xiao Ren arrived to where his place earlier and sat before he heard the voice of Xiao Xing er "ohhh 1 hitting a 4th layer to defeat him huh... Ren looks like you are strong, then I will really get serious if I fight you heheh"

"well it's okay, I also want to fight sister Xing er seriously" Xiao Ren said while looking at Xiao Xing er then they hear the voice of the Third Elder "participants number 53 and 11 come to the arena"

"Sister Xing er you are finally called haha" Xiao Ren said to Xiao Xing er and when Xiao Xing er heard the word of Xiao Ren "yeah stay there you two, I will be back" Xiao Xing er said with a smile before she goes to the arena.

When Xiao Xing er arrived to the arena, the people either from the Xiao Clan or outsiders who came to watch the test focus their eyes to the young lady on the arena, because they want to know if the rumor is true if this young lady really is in the 7th layer of body tempering realm but they got dissapointed in this round because when the fight start her opponent didn't last in 1 move that's why they didn't saw her full strength.

After a while all participants got called and from the original 64 participants half was eliminated and the second round start and after a while Xiao Xing er was called first and defeated her opponent in one move and when it was Xiao Ren's turn his opponent is another 4th layer body tempering but his opponent didn't last in ten moves before his opponent was defeated even though his opponent used his Martial Technique from the very start. The test continued to the third round and the two win easily and there are also another three participants that also easily win it is the 3 5th layer of body tempering realm including Xiao Ning.

After the third round end the test take a small break because in the fourth round it will be the battle in the top 8.

After a while the test continued to the fourth round start and the first battle in the fourth round is Xiao Ren and this time his opponent is a 5th layer of body tempering realm young man about the age of 17 who's name is Xiao Wang.